Certificate Renewal

Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert & Personal e-Cert

• Certificate owner has the responsibility to renew the certificate before expiry date.
• The system will send email (Certificate Renewal Notice) to the certificate owner one month, two weeks and 3 days before the certificate is due to expire, if it has not been renewed.
• Upon receiving the renewal notice, certificate owner is required to connect to HKUST Certificate Management System and present the client certificate.

Secure Server e-Cert & Developer e-Cert

• Certificate owner has the responsibility to renew the certificate before expiry date.
• Certificate owner is required connect to HKUST Certificate Management System to general the certificate renewal request. He is also required to submit a signed written letter together with their departmental stamp to ITSC for further verification. Please refer to the sample letters for the renewal application.
• Successful renewed application will receive an email notification from HKUST CA.
• Applicant can just browse to the URL stated in the email and then download the certificate.